So I picked up at motorcraft 2150 from the junk yard the otherrl day. I found it on a 85 ford ranger. To my suprise after doing a little research be for I pulled it off, it was the perfect size for my 258. It is a 1.08 so that is about 200 cfm if I remember correctly.
So I pulled it off and brought it home. I ordered a rebuild kit from autozone and picked it up yesterday. I also tore yhe carb apart and to my suprize this carb is sooo simple. It makes the old carter look like rocket science. So I cleaned it up and dropped it in the carb dip till it was all clean. Then I rinsed and dried it off. I decided to paint it so I taped off all the linkage and holes and sprayed it with high temp engine paint. Tonight I hope to build it back up and start the install.
Ill post pics in a little bit.

Some back story. I rebuild my carter bc of idle issues and the choke wasn't working. During the rebuild I found some broken parts in the stepper motor but I left them alone. I put it back on and it worked perfect other than the fact that the jeep wouldn't start unless I put gas in the bowl. Then it would startup just fine and run good. I would have to do this every time I went to start it after it had been cold.
So during all of this I have been keeping an eye out of another carb and one day in the junk yard I ran across the ranger and decided to pull the trigger. I can't drive the jeep right now due to a tire problem so it seemed like a good time to do it.(tread was separating in the middle from the inside, so it was horrible to drive. Will be posting new tires when I find some. I'm not looking forward to buying 35s though lots of $$$$

smurf carb It might take plugging some ports not applicable to the 258, but with some work you should be able to get it running. There's even a way to mount the factory air cleaner if you still have it

Yeah smurf carb on a big banana jeep. No stock air cleaner though never had one. And yeah I figured that I would have to block off a passage or two, ill figure that out when input it back together tonight.

Well I assembled the carb now I need to find a good float setting and get an adapter plate. I tried to make one out of the spacer that was on the ranger but I ended up braking it so now I have to wait a little bit longer. I might pull the manifold and clean and paint it too we will have to see how long it takes me to get the adapter.